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Re: An acronym FAQ
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lugnet.faq
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Sun, 6 Feb 2000 06:05:51 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> In lugnet.faq, Shiri Dori writes:
> > I was thinking of creating an Acronym FAQ. [...]
> > Do you think there is need for one?
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> Oh, absolutely! :-,
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> Here's a decent head-start, Derek Schin's rec.toys.lego acronym list:
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> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/9639/rtlspeak.txt
Yep, got that one. But it seems some of the acronyms there were maybe used a
lot at the time, but not much anymore (e.g. when's the last time you heard
IHTICWI? According to Derek: "It's Hard To Imagine Childhood Without It;
the '95 line catalog." I've never seen this one ;-)
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> As I mentioned, this list is for rec.toys.lego, and has quite a few acronyms
> not in common usage on LUGNET; I think it would be useful to break it up into
> Lego theme acronyms, Lego chat acronyms, and Internet culture acronyms. Note
> also that you might need to get his permission to copy the relevant parts.
Do you have his e-mail?
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> Here's a few more acronyms:
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> BURP = Big Ugly Rock Piece (common usage?)
> SNOT = Studs Not On Top (from Tom McDonald?)
> POOP = Piece Of Other Pieces (common usage?)
> SPUD = Special Purpose Ugly Design (common usage?)
> TIMMY = Terribly Immature Minifig Master of Yucky (mine! :-)
Other than the SNOT and TIMMY, I know that much ;-) Thanks!
-Shiri
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| (...) Oh, absolutely! :-, Here's a decent head-start, Derek Schin's rec.toys.lego acronym list: (URL) I mentioned, this list is for rec.toys.lego, and has quite a few acronyms not in common usage on LUGNET; I think it would be useful to break it up (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-00, to lugnet.faq)
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